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Geography is an integrative discipline that helps us understand the nature of the world and the human place within it by studying the interaction between people and natural environments, the processes that shape that interaction, and the connections between people and places, particularly the interaction needed for human survival. The geography department at MU is small, yet its faculty is involved in a wide range of research. That means students are, too. The program is structured to give students the skills they will need if they want to work as professional geographers—skills that apply to other fields. They are the basic skills of observation, speculation, analysis, interpretation, and communication.

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Bike share systems are a rising trend in multi-modal transportation, involving automated kiosks where bikes can be checked out at one location and returned to another. Urban form can affect the utility of bike share systems ...

This thesis explores how a diverse coalition of rural residents, ranchers, Native American tribes, and environmental activists -- many of them united under the grassroots organization known as the Great Basin Water Network ...

Tour guides at historic sites are increasingly recognized by heritage and place studies as important agents of place creation and re-creation. Guides at Civil War sites repeatedly perform official and vernacular historical ...

In the 21st century, global-scale controls of treeline are thought to be well understood. While this may be true, the treeline ecotone is modulated by fine-scale microclimates and feedbacks. This creates a need for ...

Big-leaf Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the neo-tropic's most valuable hardwood but it continues to experience rapid and in many cases irreversible depletion throughout its range. In Latin America, unsustainable ...

Although geographic studies of disaster vulnerability and resilience have been central to the formulation of federal emergency management policy, recent community resilience research has diverged significantly from the ...

Research on fear of crime and on intersectionality have both been growing within geography in recent decades. To explore the geography of fear as it pertains to the intersecting social identities of gender and religion, ...

This case study seeks to assess the efficacy of co-management regimes in land reform initiatives through a qualitative, exploratory analysis of local perceptions of the co-management of natural resources in the newly ...

Trail spaces have been depicted many ways but no other approach offers the thorough and inclusive qualities of actor-network theory. In this analysis of the Arizona Trail, actor-network theory evinces the relationships ...

Landscape has long been of central concern to cultural geography. Historically, the conceptualization of landscape rested on discursive binaries of subject-object, culture-nature, and self-other. Recent developments in ...

Broadband Internet is increasingly becoming a necessity in today's society. Providers of these services are expanding access to the high-speed Internet as well as its speed and capacity. With the recent release of the ...

Human trafficking is a human rights violation that is difficult to quantify. Models for estimating the number of victims of trafficking presented by previous researchers depend on inconsistent, poor quality data. As an ...

Changing regional climate conditions have increased the sensitivity of many forests to fire. In Missouri, this increased risk has been realized in major stands such as Mark Twain National Forest. This thesis works towards ...

Bioenergy becomes the largest source of renewable energy in the United States. Switchgrass, a type a Warm Season Grasses, has been regarded as alternative resources instead of annual crops for obtaining the bioenergy. The ...

Populations in the Sahel are among the most vulnerable to climate change and variability (CCV). The increased temperatures and rainfall variability predicted by General Circulation Models (GCM) threaten Sahel livelihoods ...

The land application of livestock wastes is a significant potential contributor of environmental hormone contamination. Hormones from land-applied wastes have been detected in field runoff and in downstream surface waters. ...

Thermal stress is marked as an essential cause of coral bleaching. Corals begin losing the symbiotic algae and their color when sea temperature exceeds one to two degree Celsius above the summer maxima. Thus, monitoring ...